Joel Edgerton Quotes
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I'm a great believer in not sitting around waiting for the right part to come around, but jumping in and building it for yourself.
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I'm a pacifist.
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Actors want to act; actors want to emote. It's like the emotional equivalent of tearing your shirt off and screaming to the heavens: you want to express, and you want to be seen to be expressing.
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'The Great Gatsby' ticked so many boxes for me.
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The little bit of buzz around 'Warrior' led to a lot of opportunities anyway, before the movie even came out.
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It's easier to play aggression and malevolence onscreen, often, than to hit softer notes.
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I had a bit of a martial arts background from when I was a teenager: I did a bit of karate.
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I just love good movies. And not every movie you're going to end up in is always going to turn out right, but at least walk into it with the right intention.
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I just don't want to do crap movies, man, because I just love that I can get up and talk about them and talk to journalists about stuff that I'm really proud of.
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I operate under the theory that all publicity is good publicity, and then, if that theory doesn't work, you just say that any newspaper article ends up on the bottom of the parrot cage. But, of course, you can't line a parrot cage with Internet bloggers, can you?
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Sometimes I think being an actor is like being a dog for a director; it's like they throw a stick, and you want to fetch it and bring it back to them. You want a pat on the head for it.
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I'm a bit of a workaholic.
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The only way for you to show what you can do is to actually do.
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I never really think too much about my voice.
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I did have someone tell me that I looked like Conan O'Brien. I was like, 'What?'
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I've signed four autographs for Sam Worthington in L.A., and I haven't told any of the people that I'm not him.
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Sometimes, what's not said is just as important to the writing as what is said. As a writer, we have our voices heard. I think that, at oftentimes, the ability to allow the dialogue to recede properly into the world of the film is also a really valid sort of way to be a writer, I think.
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You can road-test relationships.
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Sometimes I just wonder if I'm being led by variety. If one film leads me down one path, sometimes I just want to turn around and head the opposite way for the next project. I hope that's not the case, but sometimes I suspect that.
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Every now and then, I have a deep thought.
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I wanted to make a movie that was kind of a tribute to the way I feel when I watch a John Hughes movie.
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Sometimes, the smaller roles in movies can be the most interesting. If you only take the stance that you'll only play central characters in movies, you'll find yourself not being able to indulge in that morally grey terrain that makes support characters so rich and interesting.
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You've got to be really careful that you're not falling into the Hollywood trap, you know?
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I really believe guilt finds its way out of a person.